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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 472

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ce. But, hoAvever remark-able this order may be in itself in respect to workmanship, it is buta study, a separate abstract architectural feature, with no espeeialsigniticance in its application, and having no essential relations withits surroundings. In the ancient buildings conuected with the… … througli two stories (Pig. 70).* Tins expédient certaiiily gave averyimposing appearance to tlie structure to \A-hich it was applied, yetit Avould be hard to find a reasonable explauation for it. * See Du Cerceau, Des plus excellens bastimens de France. 390 DISCOUPtSES OX AECHITECTUEE. But, after…

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